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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-259-3
EAN 9781788162593
Some people fear and mistrust numbers. Others want to use them for everything. After a long career as a statistician, Paul Goodwin has learned the hard way that the ones who want to use them for everything are a very good reason for the rest of us to fear and mistrust them.Something Doesn't Add Up ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-020-9
EAN 9781788160209
We live in a world that's more interconnected than ever before. Our lives are shaped by outbreaks - of disease, of misinformation, even of violence - that appear, spread and fade away with bewildering speed.To understand them, we need to learn the hidden laws that govern them. From 'superspreaders' who might spark a pandemic or ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,40 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-405-4
EAN 9781788164054
What is the shape of a life? Is it the things that happen to us? Or is it the stories we tell about the things that happen to us? From the coast of the Adriatic to the salt spray of Santa Barbara, the narrator of Topics of Conversation maps out her life through two decades ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-754-3
EAN 9781788167543
This ground-breaking book exposes the myths behind startup success, illuminates the real forces at work and shows how they can be harnessed in your favour. The world isn't a level playing field. Meritocracy is a myth.And if you look at those at the top, you realise that behind every success story is an Unfair Advantage. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 22,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-192-3
EAN 9781788161923
What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ritual human sacrifice ever?We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. Yet we ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-658-4
EAN 9781788166584
In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulent and possibly larcenous. In Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops he distils the essence of his experience into a warm, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-267-8
EAN 9781788162678
On his deathbed in 19 BCE, Vergil asked that his epic, the Aeneid, be burned and not published. If his wishes had been obeyed, western literature - and maybe even western civilization - might have taken a different course. The Aeneid has remained a key text of university courses since the rise of universities, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-605-8
EAN 9781788166058
In a hierarchy, every employee rises to the level of their own incompetence. This simple maxim, defined by this classic book over 40 years ago, has become a beacon of truth in the world of work. From the civil service to multinational companies to hospital management, it explains why things constantly go wrong: promotion up ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 8,20 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-572-3
EAN 9781788165723
The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020It feels like the world is falling apart. So how do we keep hold of our optimism? How do we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in something better? And how can we stay sane in this world of division?In this beautifully written and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-206-7
EAN 9781788162067
Throughout history, there has been one quality that great leaders, makers, artists and fighters have shared. The Zen Buddhists described it as inner peace, the Stoics called it ataraxia and Ryan Holiday calls it stillness: the ability to be steady, focused and calm in a constantly busy world. Drawing on a wide range of history's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-225-8
EAN 9781788162258
'Ravishingly beautiful' Observer'Excruciatingly honest and yet vibrantly creative' Irish Times'Provocative and rich' Economist'Daring, chilling, and unlike anything else you've ever read' Esquire'An absolute must-read for 2020' StylistIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-451-1
EAN 9781788164511
With a new introduction by the multi-prizewinning young poet Kayo Chingonyi. For over forty years, until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes captured in his poetry the lives of black people in the USA. This edition is Hughes's own selection of his work, and was first published in 1959.It includes all of his best known ...
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